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During finals week, look for advice
With the end of the fall semester lurking its way into our lives, the only thing that goes through a college student’s mind is finals.
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Students need more on-campus parking
With the temperature dropping and snowflakes beginning to fall, many students are going to turn to their cars as an alternative form of transportation — yet parking is a hindrance. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, recently passed a resolution in an attempt to expand available parking for students on campus.
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Unity necessary to stop nuclear Iran
Many prominent nations, including the U.S., England, France and Israel, are concerned at Iran’s nuclear program.
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Practicality matters in research
In the race against global warming and the quest for energy independence, biomass has long been touted as a sort of Holy Grail. It’s easy to see biomass as an infinite resource — plants grow everywhere.
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Value high in social media recruiting
Facebook and Twitter aren’t only people sharing what they’re doing with friends and family; social media also is an effective admissions tool for MSU.
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Real christmas trees beneficial
This time of year, living rooms everywhere are marked by large evergreen trees, yet most people don’t really know why. The Christmas tree has a long and controversial history.
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ASMSU overreached on CATA mobile app
This year, ASMSU has done a better job of trying to serve students. However, it didn’t lay the proper groundwork when it set out to develop a mobile app students could use to find times and track Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA buses.
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Women have right to birth control
U.S. House Republicans are attacking a recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, to require new insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays.
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Untold reasons for unemployment
The economy will be the dominant issue in the 2012 presidential election, and rightfully so. This has been the longest time of unemployment staying above 9 percent since the Great Depression.
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Grad student funding cuts could hurt US
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction not only failed to lower the national debt but also failed in helping students. The committee’s recent lapse in reaching an agreement regarding how to address America’s steadily rising national debt triggered several planned cuts to federally funded programs.
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Turkeys not abused, poorly kept
I am appalled that a piece of drivel like that written by Mitch Goldsmith would even be published in this newspaper (“Try turkey-less Thanksgiving,” SN 11/22). There are so many errors and outright lies in his article, I almost wonder if it is actually satire.
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Parking attendants not to blame
You see, if you describe the parking department as a disease, I must be a virus. I am employed as a parking booth attendant. I’m not an enforcer.
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Give beyond family for holidays
I am sure someone somewhere could use help serving food, because you can never have enough free help. So this holiday season, get your family together and find a place to serve a delicious hot meal to those in need.
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Free speech rights important to know
This semester, more so than in past semesters, issues of free speech were ignited by a campuswide discussion about race. It undoubtedly is important for students to learn the difference between hate speech and free speech.
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Try turkey-less Thanksgiving
Each Thanksgiving, an estimated 45 million turkeys are thought to be reared and killed in American factory farms, destined to be the holiday centerpieces on American families’ dinner tables.
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Support Spartan football success
For years, I’ve claimed that if MSU ever got a consistent winner on the football field and fans’ loyalty was repaid, watch out — the alumni, students and the state would go absolutely nuts and prove men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo right that we are a football school ranking with the best of them.
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Positive jobs report not reason to relax
With the end of the semester sneaking up on students, for some it’s their last few weeks as a Spartan. Although most students dread the thought of leaving, a new MSU report should lessen that trepidation.
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Students have right to carry pepper spray
No student should feel unsafe walking home at night. Although making that happen is impossible, taking action to empower students to keep them from feeling unsafe is the next best step for MSU.
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Maturity changes view of home
The holiday season is fast approaching. Come 2 p.m. Wednesday, I am officially free to head home. Home for me is Tecumseh, Mich.
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Stop blaming Penn State students
Pennsylvania State University used to represent the pinnacle of morality in college athletics. In an instant, that illusion shattered into a million pieces.